Nope, I really don't know what I'm going to do with the board. Trash most likely. You can have it for the cost of shipping(you can have the butchered itx case and psu too). I've already replaced it with an Athlon64 3000+ system, so it serves no purpose for me anymore.

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what were you running f@h or was it just the ambient temperature? Mine's working fine, although I cannot get linux to install...must be the hard drive.

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Nah, Azureus 24/7 + 2hdds in a case with little space for ventilation(less than 1CM) and only the PSU fan. It was stable though, I'll give it that.

Nope, I really don't know what I'm going to do with the board. Trash most likely. You can have it for the cost of shipping(you can have the butchered itx case and psu too). I've already replaced it with an Athlon64 3000+ system, so it serves no purpose for me anymore.

Nah, Azureus 24/7 + 2hdds in a case with little space for ventilation(less than 1CM) and only the PSU fan. It was stable though, I'll give it that.

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sell it on the boards here, someone will take it. By the by the new version of ubuntu is swell (in some ways) although this board is funky with a cdrom and hd on the same channel.

I've actually got two P-M desktop systems. One is a 1.5GHz@2HGz on the AOpen i855 board, the other a 1.6GHz@2.13GHz on the DFI board. Great chips, great systems, and built on the cheap. The 1.5GHz box cost under $300 thanks to Newegg refurbs and dumb ebay sellers.

Can't change the CPU on the Shelton, at least not easily. It's soldered directly to the board, would require some excellent skills. The heatsink is actually soldered to the board using 4 stiff little pins, getting that off would pretty much mean a damaged board.

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Hi Widefault,

I have saw those P-M cpu in e-bay are Socket 478, is it possiblel to plug into the MB with Socket-479 ?

If it's a Pentium-M, it'll work, but beware the sellers who call a P4-M a P-M. Both have 478 pins, but only the Pentium-M will fit the Socket 479 boards.

You also have to be on the lookout for some sellers who have BGA chips. There was a seller not too long ago who was selling 2GHz Pentium-Ms, but they were the ones designed to be soldered directly to the board like the Shelton chips. Now if anyone was crazy enough, it could be interesting to try to replace the Shelton with a real P-M.

Oh yeah, a Shelton-esque CPU is being used on a lot of embedded system boards, but at 600MHz and with different amounts of cache. Here's one of my future purchases. I've got their socketed version running a P-M 1.4Ghz right now, but the appeal of a fanless system is strong. Too bad I could have bought about four Sheltons for the cost of one of the above.